Denny Hamlin discusses previous 'bulls***' Chase Elliott incidents

It’s been four days since Chase Elliott intentionally dumped Denny Hamlin during the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

An incident which left NASCAR no choice but to suspend Elliott for this Sunday’s Enjoy Illinois 300 at World Wide Technology Raceway, and left Hamlin heated in the aftermath. Hamlin took to his “Actions Detrimental” podcast the following day to explain in detail what took place on the racetrack, and noted this wasn’t an isolated incident involving Elliott in the NASCAR Cup Series.

“I’ve seen this with him in the past,” Hamlin said. “He got pissed off when [Kyle] Larson kinda drove him up in the fence at California. Larson’s leading the race at the end [and] he intentionally caused a caution there, trying to screw Larson over, his own teammate. And then when [Kevin] Harvick and him got into it, he came in, where’s Harvick? I’m gonna help my teammate out [and] blocked Harvick so Kyle Larson could win… This is bulls***.”

The crash occurred on the front stretch after Elliott made contact with the wall coming out of Turn 4 with Hamlin beside him. Elliott appeared to take exception with being squeezed against the wall by Hamlin, and responded by deliberately hooking him.

Hamlin doubled down on his criticism of Elliott, calling his actions on the racetrack immature.

“That is just so immature to right-rear hook someone. It’s just childish and it just pisses me off,” Hamlin said. “You gotta be better than that. … Chase Elliott made comments May 1 about how he felt how unsafe he felt the cars were. But yet, you think that’s OK. It doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever.”

Denny Hamlin hasn’t spoken with Chase Elliott, says he was angry enough to fight him

Hamlin went as far to say he was angry enough to want to fight Elliott if he saw him after the accident.

“No, [I haven’t spoken to Elliott] I was so mad, and I’m really really mad now, I was — I couldn’t see straight,” Hamlin said. “I didn’t think I would pass my concussion test because I’m like, I can’t see straight. I am so on fire, if he walks through that door I — I don’t know — I’m just gonna take a swing and if I get my ass whooped, I get my ass whooped… Don’t care because that was just absolutely wrong in every single way. It’s wrong. And so, NASCAR needs to do the right thing and be consistent here…

“It’s time to make the right call. There’s no excuse you can give. He was going dead straight and all of a sudden turns left 120 degrees with the steering wheel. That is not an accident, it is intentional.”